A maid working at a Bavarian bed & breakfast in the southern German city of Passau found three people dead, impaled on long crossbow bolts, when she checked on the room.
When the maid first looked into the second floor room, she thought the figure on the bed was a doll and called a colleague to help push the door open.
They were met with a bizarre and horrifying scene — a 54-year-old man and two women, aged 30 and 33, dead with crossbow bolts through their mid-sections and two crossbows lying on the floor.
Local press reported that the man and the youngest woman were from Rhineland-Palatinate in the west of the country and the 33-year-was from 482km away in Lower Saxony, but they arrived together at the guesthouse.
A hotel manager told the Daily Beast that the trio arrived late on Friday night local time, in a white ute after battling through driving rain.
